Lucas Gren (Ph.D.)

This is the personal research page of Lucas Gren

[C13] Gren L., and Shepperd M. "Problem reports and team maturity in Agile automotive software development" In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE2022), May 21-29, 2022 Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [preprint]

[C12] Gren L., and Ralph P. "What Makes Effective Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams?" In Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (Technical Track ICSE2022), May 21-29, 2022 Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [preprint]

[J11] Gren, L., and Berntsson Svensson R. "Is it possible to disregard obsolete requirements? A family of experiments in software effort estimation," Requirements Engineering 26, 459-480 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-021-00351-7. [preprint, supplementary material DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6111099]

[J10] Torkar, R., Furia, C., Feldt, R., Gomes de Oliveira Neto, F., Gren, L., Lenberg, P., and Ernst, N. "A Method to Assess and Argue for Practical Significance in Software Engineering" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Accepted 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2020.3048991. [preprint]

[W16] Gren L. "Understanding Work Practices of Autonomous Agile Teams: A Social-psychological Review." In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development – Workshops (XP 2020), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 8-12, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58858-8_23. [preprint]

[C11] Gren L., and Lindman M. “What an Agile Leader Does: The Group Dynamics Perspective” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 8-12, 2020. [preprint]

[C10] Gren L., and Lenberg P. “Agility is responsiveness to change: An essential definition” In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Trondheim, Norway, April 15-17, 2020, DOI: 10.1145/3383219.3383265. [preprint]

[J9] Gren L. "A flipped classroom approach to teaching empirical software engineering," IEEE Transactions on Education 63(3), 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TE.2019.2960264. [preprint]

[J8] Gren L., Goldman A., and Jacobsson C. "The perceived effects of group developmental psychology training on agile software development teams," IEEE Software, Accepted Nov 19, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2019.2955675. [preprint]

[J7] Gren L., Goldman A., and Jacobsson C. "Agile Ways of Working: A Team Maturity Perspective," Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Accepted Nov 16, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/smr.2244. [preprint]

[W15] Nilson M., Antinyan V., and Gren L. "Do internal software quality tools measure validated metrics?" In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Managing Quality in Agile and Rapid Software Development Processes (QuASD 2019), Barcelona, Spain, Nov 27, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_50. [preprint]

[J6] de Oliveira Neto F. G., Torkar R., Feldt R, Gren L, Furia C. A., and Huang Z. “Evolution of statistical analysis in empirical software engineering research: Current state and steps forward.” Journal of Systems and Software 156, 246 - 267, 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2019.07.002. [preprint]

[J5] Mellblom E., Arason I., Gren L., and Torkar R. “The Connection Between Burnout and Personality Types in Software Developers” IEEE Software 36(5), 2019, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2019.2924769. [preprint]

[W14] Bäckevik A., Tholén E., and Gren L. “Social Identity in Software Development” In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Montréal, Canada, May 27, 2019. [preprint]

[W13] Gren L., Lenberg P., and Ljungberg K. “What software engineering can learn from research on affect in social psychology” In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion), Montréal, Canada, May 28, 2019. [preprint]

[C9] Gren L. “Standards of Validity and the Validity of Standards in Behavioral Software Engineering Research: The Perspective of Psychological Test Theory” In Proceedings on the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Oulu, Finland, October 11–12, 2018, 4 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3239235.3267437 [preprint]

[C8] Gren L. “Agile Process Consultation – An Applied Psychology Approach to Agility” In Proceedings on the 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2018), New Orleans, USA, August 16-18, 2018. [preprint]

[W12] Gren L., and Lenberg P. “The Importance of Conflict Resolution Techniques in Autonomous Agile Teams” In Proceedings on the 1st International Workshop on Autonomous Teams (A-TEAMS2018), Porto, Portugal, May 25, 2018. [preprint]

[W11] Gren L., Wong A., and Kristoffersson E. “Choosing agile or plan-driven enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations - A study on 21 implementations from 20 companies” In Proceedings on the 4th International Workshop on the Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS2018), Tallinn, Estonia, June 12, 2018. [preprint]

[W10] Gren L. “Studying Attitudes and Social Norms in Agile Software Development” In Proceedings XP2018 Poster Track, Porto, Portugal, May 21-25, 2018. [preprint]

[W9] Gren L. “On Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Empirical Software Engineering Research” In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27, 2018. [preprint]

[J4] Gren L., Knauss A., and Stettina C.J. “Non-Technical Individual Skills are Weakly Connected to the Maturity of Agile Practices” Information and Software Technology (IST), 11-20 , 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2018.02.006. [preprint]

[J3] Al-Sabbagh K., and Gren L. “The Connections Between Group Maturity, Software Development Velocity and Planning Effectiveness,” Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 30(1), 2018, DOI:10.1002/smr.1896. [preprint]

[C7] Gren L. “Learning more from crossing levels: Investigating agility at three levels of the organization” In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'17), Las Vegas, Nevada, December 14–16, 2017. [preprint]

[T2] Gren L. “Psychological group processes when building agile software development teams” PhD Thesis, University of Gothenburg, December, 2017, Technical Report No 147D, ISBN 978-91-982237-3-6. [This is a collection of papers and the published papers appended are J1, J2, C5, J3, and J4]

[W8] Gren L. “Social Influence in Agile Requirements Engineering” In the Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session held in connection with the 43rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Vienna, Austria, September 1, 2017. [preprint]

[C6] Gren L., and Antinyan V. “On the Relation Between Unit Testing and Code Quality” In Proceedings of the 43rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Vienna, Austria, August 30–September 1, 2017. [preprint]

[C5] Gren L. “The links between agile practices, interpersonal conflict, and perceived productivity” In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Karlskrona, Sweden, June 15-16, 2017. [preprint]

[W7] Gren L., and Al-Sabbagh K. “Group Developmental Psychology and Software Development Performance” In Proceedings of the Poster Track at the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 24, 2017.

[W6] Gren L. Berntsson Svensson R., and Unterkalmsteiner M. “Is it Possible to Disregard Obsolete Requirements? — An Initial Experiment on a Potentially New Bias in Software Effort Estimation” In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 23, 2017. [preprint]

[W5] Gren L. “A fourth explanation to Brooks' Law — The aspect of group developmental psychology” In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 23, 2017. [preprint]

[J2] Gren L., Torkar R., and Feldt R. “Group development and group maturity when building agile teams: A qualitative and quantitative investigation at eight large companies,” Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 124, 104–119, 2017, DOI:10.1016/J.JSS.2016.11.024. [preprint]

[W4] Gren L., and Goldman A. "Trying to Increase the Mature Use of Agile Practices by Group Development Psychology Training — An Experiment" In the Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ), Hamilton, New Zealand, December 6, 2016. [preprint]

[W3] Gren L. “The systems approach to change and the agile software development context” In the Proceedings of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group Workshop (PPIG), Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 7-9, 2016. [preprint]

[W2] Gren L. “Using the agile adoption framework to assess agility and guide improvements” In the Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session held in connection with the 42nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Limassol, Cyprus, August 31–September 2, 2016. ISBN 978-3-902457-46-2. [preprint]

[C4] Chronis K., and Gren L. “Agility measurements mismatch: A validation study on three agile team assessments in software engineering” In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, May 24-27, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33515-5_2 [preprint]

[W1] Gren L., and Goldman A. “Useful statistical methods for human factors research in software engineering: A discussion on validation with quantitative data” In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Texas, USA, May 16, 2016. DOI: 10.1145/2897586.2897588 [preprint]

[T1] Gren L. “Using the Work and Organizational Psychology Perspective in Research on Agile Software Development Teams” Licentiate Thesis (Half-way PhD degree), The University of Gothenburg, November, 2015, Technical Report No 142L, ISSN 1652-876X.

[C3] Gren L., Torkar R., and Feldt R. “Group maturity and agility, are they connected? - A survey study,” In Proceedings of the 41st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2015), August 26-28, 2015, DOI:10.1109/SEAA.2015.31. [preprint]

[C2] Berntsson Svensson R., Taghavianfar M., and Gren L. “Creativity Techniques for More Creative Requirements: Theory vs. Practice,” In Proceedings of the 41st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2015), August 26-28, 2015, DOI:10.1109/SEAA.2015.59.

[J1] Gren L., Torkar R., and Feldt R. “The Prospects of a Quantitative Measurement of Agility: A Validation Study on an Agile Maturity Model,” Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 107, 38–49, 2015, DOI:10.1016/J.JSS.2015.05.008. [preprint]

[C1] Gren L., Torkar R., and Feldt R. “Work motivational challenges regarding the interface between agile teams and a non-agile surrounding organization: A case study” In Proceedings of AGILE 2014, July 28–August 1, 2014, DOI:10.1109/AGILE.2014.13. [preprint]

J=Journal (peer-reviewed), C=Conference (peer-reviewed), W=Workshop/Work-in-progress/Poster Session (peer-reviewed), and T=Technical report/dissertation.